Ah good. Now I know what specs not to buy.
Ah good. Now I know what specs not to buy.
One thing about the pre-Internet times I don’t hear much about is how much more centralised our media were and how, as a result, people or ideas on the fringe of society didn’t get much attention. That includes for instance how the strange ideas about vaccines or ethnic groups now spread much easier than they did before the Internet, but also how trans* people and other marginalised groups find it much easier to find and support each other and be a united front against oppression.
In summary, I don’t thing that what has been termed “the great awokening”, nor the organised opposition against it, could have taken place before the Internet. At least not at this scale.
Sadly Microsoft didn’t specify where on the keyboard the key has to be.
In order to find out, hit the keyboard with your head; wherever your forehead touches the keyboard first is where the key is supposed to be.
Hyperloop was always a project to sabotage high-speed rail. Good thing it failed.
I alternate
I have a dad joke, but it’s yo momma.
weekend = day_of_week in (“sat”, “sun”)
As a bonus this completely sidesteps the issue of what day is 0 or 1.
If there’s water between the membranes an alternative is to wait a long time for it to dry out (months).
Yeah, hobbit-serial architectures lack performance.
So the Fellowship of the Ring was made up of an elf, a dwarf, two humans, a maia and one hobnibble?
Apparently this is what makes someone turn neutral.
A non-recursive recursive descent parser isn’t any easier to reason about.
I had been thinking about doing something akin to the X16 but more modern, but realised that the main challenge with launching a product like this lies not in doing the design, but in coordinating all the people that are involved in producing the hardware, software and documentation (and hype, don’t forget hype). And you’ve gotta hand it to David Murray (the 8-bit guy): he’s knows how to do this, and has demonstrated this before with Planet X3.
It’s weird in the sense that software development has moved in other directions. A tagged-architecture stack machine like the Burroughs Large System is weird as well, even though it’s been highly successful and very influential on later designs (eg. Forth, SmallTalk).
If we’d still be using bank switching and overlays I’d say learning to code assembly on a 6502 is a great introduction to modern computers, but we’re not so it’s not.
Hey, at least the number of fingers on the visible hand check out.
Exactly. Something in the spirit of an Amiga 500 (I never had one, so this is not nostalgia speaking) is much more suitable to beginning programmers. Something with a flat address space, an easily memorisable instruction set and rich collection of hardware (blitter, DMA controller, sound generator) to play with. And something that has modern interfaces (HDMI & USB) so the not-so-well-equipped hacker-in-training can also jump in right away.
The Commander X16 isn’t it.
There’s plenty of choices. If you want that retro vibe go for a 68k, if you want something neat but obscure (and are willing to use an FPGA) choose the pdp-11, if you want to go with the flow then use risc-v.
But please pick something that’s not actively fighting modern (that is, not 1970’s) programming techniques.
Having multiple sufficiently-powered virtual machines makes OS development really low friction. Though I’d personally go for a blade subrack instead.